CanadaTransportation plansDisadvantaged groupsCycling is increasingly prioritized as a mode of transport with multiple socio-economic, environmental, and health benefits. However, the benefits associated with cycling are not always equitably distributed throughout society, meaning that some people (e.g. ...
are more active, especially for transportation, than those who live in communities designed for automobile dependence. Other researchers have concluded that proximity to recreational facilities, along with pleasing aesthetics, is associated with more recreational physical activity”(Public Health Canada, ...
With the launch of the new CPTF, all orders of government, and transit authorities will work together to advance long-term plans and sign agreements. This approach will better respond to the needs of communities of all sizes across Canada by providing stable and predictable federal funding for ...
The timetable has to be fulfilled, so appropriate plans have to be made for transport vehicles (buses, trains), related personnel (e.g. crew, drivers, conductors). Making specific plans is usually called vehicle scheduling, crew scheduling, duty scheduling and duty rostering, where the ...
The round was backed by Magna International, AutoNation and its parent company Alphabet. Waymo had already raised an initial $2.25bn tranche, featuring the three corporate backers as well as venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The first close was co-led by Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan ...
part of wider democratic processes that reflect contemporary political and societal priorities (Legacy 2016). These priorities have shifted substantially over the past few decades, meaning that transport plans based on out-of-date ideas or faulty model assumptions (such as the assumption that congestion...
The analysis is based on a multi-dimensional performance matrix (e.g., including safety and financial considerations) and embraces a diversity of institutional models from around the world (e.g., a public/privatize partnership in the UK, a non-share corporation in Canada and Switzerland,...
plans to send humans to Mars, although much has to be accomplished in the nature of making the planet habitable for human existence. It is said though, that “establishing a permanent settlement is very complex, but it is far less complex and requires much less infrastructure that is sent ...
Canada; Carme Miralles, PhD, Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain; David Moctezuma, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA; Javier Molina-García, PhD, Department of Teaching of Musical, Visual and Corporal Exp...
In a study of Australian policy shapers' mental models, there were clear signs that ideas and beliefs acted as barriers to a transition to sustainable transport planning (Curtis & Low, 2012). The predict-and-provide paradigm was found to be thriving, as was the notion that transport plans ...